Speaking seconds after the stage finish, the stage winner and first Maglia Rossa e Gialla, Riccardo Stacchiotti, said: “The stage was very hard, after the climb the leg were good and I tried to do a good sprint, it’s amazing. In the final kilometres my teammates brought me in to the best position and I took Belletti’s wheel and in the last 200 meters I did my best and managed to win!”